Johannes Buchner

Isn’t that beautiful?

My GRUB bootloader says:

I got 4 operating systems on my laptop now (the second is a modified startup of the first, I describe it here).

With my newest, OpenBSD 4.0, you may now call me a wizard of OS. Here is some info about it:

Install:
Making the boot iso yourself is really very easy, I went with amd64, and added some manuals and the release songs to it.

The install wasn’t that hard, I just had to read a bit about disklabels. Beside, I already had a FreeBSD some time ago.

Also the following question is a little misleading ;-)

Start [0]:

… (If you accept zero, it will overwrite your partition table … )

By the way I found a nice partition finder utility: Testdisk. It’s FOSS, runs under Linux and windows without setup. I usually went with PCIRecovery.
Anyway, I wasn’t too freaked out about it, I generally backup my data.

• It beeps. That is very annoying, especially in vi, that doesn’t like Del, Backspace, Cursor keys (mode changes). This is generally in all Unices the same, Linux is way more relaxed here.
  Solution:

  mixerctl -w inputs.speaker.mute=on

  For permanent, add that /etc/mixerctl.conf

• ac97 device driver doesn’t play in the right speed.
  Solution: there is none.
  Temporary solution:

  mpg123 -r 49000 mp3file

  works well, but this is a workaround.

• Mounting FAT:

  mount_msdos /dev/wd1i /mnt/daten

  Mounting ext2fs:

  mount /mnt/p1

  With the entries in fstab:

  /dev/wd1i /mnt/daten msdos rw 0 0
  /dev/wd0j /mnt/p1 ext2fs ro 0 0

  That works. Got the devicenames from disklabel.

package manager:

• can only add packages one after another (in contrast to Gentoo)
• is really fast on adding, faster than rpm, deb, gentoo (what I saw)

packages
Packages I added and worked quite well: bash, gnome-session, gdm, xmms, mozilla-firefox, gedit, nano, gajim, …
other tweaks

• NEO works just the same as I posted for Linux
• Installed Gartoon. I love that theme.

PS: This was on a HP Pavillion dv8000